Re: New bug

2020-07-09 Thread edowning3
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. The output of the command yields: $ perl -e "print 1024 * qx{ awk '/^((Swap)?Cached|MemFree|Buffers):/{ sum += \\\$2 } END { print sum }' /proc/meminfo }" 528100048896 I will see if I can write a dummy Python script to reproduce my results as you've suggested.

Re: New bug

2020-07-07 Thread edowning3
Hi all, Sorry about the radio silence for the past month. Thank you Shlomi. I agree with your mixed feelings of Debian and am personally not surprised by the delay in release. I've pulled down version 20200622 as requested and reran the exact same command. It exits with the same error: * The

Re: New bug

2020-05-29 Thread edowning3
I have not tried a newer version yet, but I will. This version (20161222) is what comes with Debian buster (https://packages.debian.org/buster/parallel). I suppose I was just assuming that Debian had the most up-to-date version of parallel (or at least close enough). Obviously I was wrong

New bug

2020-05-29 Thread edowning3
Hello, I've discovered a potential bug with parallel. Details: * The version number: 20161222 * The bugid: Less than 1 byte free * The command line being run: $ time parallel --memfree 50G --retries 10 -a commands.txt 2> parallel_stderr.txt > parallel_stdout.txt * The specific